gmplayer says 'gnome_screensaver_control()'

I can confirm this. This happens when the screensaver has been inhibited.

I can confirm this as well. This happens when starting and stopping video playback when the "Stop XScreensaver" option is enabled.

Same bug, doesn't occur if StopXscreensaver option is disabled

Moreover when this message box is shown screensaver is still disabled so if you're watching video in bed, it doesn't turn on screensaver after movie finished—which is bad.

I observe a more strange behaviour:
- whenever I play a video with gmplayer, this error message pops up
- I can not disable the StopXScreensaver option: even if I turn it off, the next time I run gmplayer, this is again switched on

I observed this behavior every single time a movie ended, even if I just started MPlayer and dragged the slider to the end.

It did go away when I turned off Stop XScreensaver...

Not only does it pop up with this message but I also note that it takes substantially longer for Mplayer to load when the screensaver is disabled. Somewhere in the range of 30-60 seconds.

This is my first post/patch - please correct me if I'm not posting this appropriately, but the solution to this problem is a very simple one.

I'm having this problem also... when trying to play DVDs, I get the warning, and then MPlayer won't play the DVD.

Since there is a patch to this, could the package maintainer shove that into an update?

I get the same error so i thought i'd print out the output when i open gmplayer from terminal:

"MPlayer 2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu13 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.53GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 4)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
xscreensaver_disable: Could not find XScreenSaver window. <-----------
GNOME screensaver disabled <----------------------------------------------------
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control."

@SireeBob

what exactly do i do with that piece of code that you posted?

Perform the following at your own risk to patch your mplayer

This problem happens with me when I watch a rmvb video and I want to view in a full screen, the box with this message appers.

New proposed patch to replace the old one. This, additionally, makes gnome_screensaver_control() messages output only with the verbose option. They are far from fatal and should not cause errors. After switching to KDE, I was getting gnome_screensaver_control() even at the start of videos. This should solve that.

Deselecting the option: "Stop XScreenSaver" worked for me.

same problem for me however I just click okay and then it goes away :) i don't know if it has anything to do with and have the problem of it not being able to load a DVD after the first one, however it is a bit nicer than totem :) has a few probs and I had to change the place it looked for the DVD from /dev/cdrom to /dev/cdrom0 other than that works fine and has great pic quality and junk.. :)

confirmed for mplayer rc2 as well...

If you have the patch, and its a confirmed bug. Why isn't it being fixed?

mplayer (2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu4) hardy; urgency=low

  [ Mario Limonciello ]
  * Rebuild against newer x264. (LP: #173624, 174087)
  * Build with enca support. (LP: #115519)
  * Fix gnome_screensaver errors. (LP: #108785, 104660, 159909, 113818)

  [ Luca Barbieri ]
  * Add locking support to Pulse Audio to prevent deadlocks. (LP: #136850)

  [ Phillip Belemezov ]
  * Fix gnome screensaver on amd64 (LP: #104660, 159861)

 -- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden> Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:13:54 -0600

Please ask backporting to gutsy.